The Customer Comes Second…..Oracle’s Software Stack Engineered for Investors
I spent much of last week sorting through the absolutely overwhelming communications disaster called Oracle Open World in search of some clarity on Oracle’s vision for its customers, and have come to the following conclusion: Oracle’s applications customer strategy just isn’t about making things better for its customers. The problem with the Oracle of today [...]
Workday Flash Mob @ HR Tech
Chinese Wall. Separation of State and Church. You know the drill. No mingling of author content and Sponsor posts. Except when they are too funny to miss. Like Workday, with their Flash Mob Lunch during the HR Tech Conference. Enjoy. (Cross-posted @ CloudAve)
What’s in a Cloud?
One of the biggest frustrations in my past life as a “customer advocate” (not consultant) was the complexity involved to buy and deploy talent management solutions. During the past few years, the demand for “integrated talent management suites” has accelerated. Unfortunately, the talent management vendors haven’t met the challenge. They continue to sell discrete “modules” [...]
Who needs an IT dept anymore?
It started out, in an airy room on the top floor of London’s Royal Festival Hall last month, as a discussion of how the cloud will shape the future of application development. It ended up casting doubt on the very existence of the IT department as a separate entity within the enterprise. Cloud, it seems, [...]
Bruce Richardson Asks: Are We Ready for Social Supply Chains? (Part 2)
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I previously shared some of Bruce Richardson’s perspectives on expanding the social enterprise from sales, marketing and products through to the physical (and even virtual services) supply…
Oracle OpenWorld 2011: 10110101010…No, Really
Oracle, Oracle, Oracle. WHAT am I going to DO with you? On the one hand, you have certain parts of you that are very, very good. Word is (from a colleague or two who spends time talking to your customers) that your customers are generally content with you, though not ecstatic. All in all, you [...]
Hubwoo and SAP Look Forward — Which Dog is Wagging Which Tail? (Part 2)
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One thing that is clear in looking at Hubwoo’s customer momentum around the SAP product set is how the vendor is benefiting from general SAP adoption trends in the broader source-to…
